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Outrage As Atiku Deletes Tweet Condemning Killing Of Sokoto College Student

13May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Elections, News, Nigeria, Religion

Outrage As Atiku Deletes Tweet Condemning Killing Of Sokoto College Student

Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar, presidential hopeful on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has deleted social media posts condemning the killing of a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education. The student, identified as Deborah Samuel, was said to have been attacked by a mob over comments considered to be an insult to Prophet Mohammed. In a post on Friday, the former vice-president said he did not authorise the initial post, adding that any post that does not have his initials “A.A” is not from him. “This evening I received information that a post was made that doesn’t agree with my orders. I use this to announce that any post without AA is not from me. May God protect – AA,” the presidential hopeful said. Muhammadu Abubakar, the Sultan of Sok...

Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi

24Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi

Ramond Dokpesi Former Vice President and leading presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he was never a party to the northern consensus arrangement. The Technical Committee for the Actualization of Atiku Abubakar’s Presidency in 2023, in a statement by its chairman, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, said the former VP did not subject himself to any purported consensus process and thus not bound by any of the recommendations and conclusions of the report. “As an avowed nationalist, Waziri Atiku Abubakar strongly believes that Nigeria has never been as divided as it is today. “He strongly believes that any ‘consensus’ arrangement premised on any regional, zonal, ethno-religious, and/or sectional gang-up will further deepen and widen this divide, and worsen the woun...

Atiku Admonishes Parents to Teach Children Good Morals

27May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Atiku Admonishes Parents to Teach Children Good Morals

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has advised parents to teach children good behaviour and instil in them high moral values. He said this in a message to congratulate children on the occasion of this year’s Children’s Day celebration. Sharing on Twitter, Atiku advised leaders to create a safe learning environment for children and to made available learning materials. He said, “I join other well-meaning citizens to congratulate all Nigerian children on the occasion of Children’s Day. It is incumbent on us as a society to ensure that children attain their full potential in life. #ChildrensDay “Education is the bedrock of any society. The pandemic is a wake-up call on administrators and leaders at all levels to do more by putting in place infrastructure and making learning ma...

20Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Edo 2020: Atiku Congratulates Obaseki

Following the announcement of Governor Godwin Obaseki, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the gubernatorial elections in Edo State yesterday, former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has congratulated the Governor. Atiku who was the party's flagbearer in the 2019 Presidential elections commended Governor Obaseki for liberating the state from "godfatherism and militarism." Alhaji Atiku who took to Twitter immediately INEC made the official declaration of results said it is a new dawn in Edo State and described the victory as a hard-won victory. Governor Godwin Obaseki polled 307, 955 votes to defeat his closest rival Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC who polled 223, 619 votes.

Opinion: Endless Borrowing Will Lead to Endless Sorrowing by Atiku Abubakar

19Dec

By adminNo Comments

Economy, News, Nigeria

Opinion: Endless Borrowing Will Lead to Endless Sorrowing by Atiku Abubakar

John Quincy Adams once said “there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” He may have very well been referring to Nigeria of the last three years. Barely two weeks ago, I warned during my Founder’s Day lecture at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, that Nigeria had taken almost as much foreign debt in the last three years, as she had taken in the thirty years before 2015 combined. Now that is frightening. And very true. Frightening, not just because of the amount, but because after such unprecedented borrowing, we have emerged as the world headquarters for extreme poverty and the global capital for out of school children. It begs the question: what were the funds used for? I have said it time and again. The business of governm...

A Message of Gratitude to Nigerians For Your Support on this Necessary Journey – Atiku

20Sep

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria

A Message of Gratitude to Nigerians For Your Support on this Necessary Journey – Atiku

Dearly beloved citizens of Nigeria, I write to personally thank you for your support for our shared common goal and the solidarity I enjoyed from all walks of life and every strata of society, right from July 21, 2018, when I informed you, the good people of Nigeria, that I would contest the 2019 Presidential election, to Wednesday, September 11, 2019, when the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal rendered its verdict. Nothing good comes easy, and hard as the task to rid Nigeria from the forces of fascism, and be an instrument for the full restoration of the rule of law and democracy in Nigeria is, your support makes the struggle worthwhile. I owe so much to this great land of Nigeria that took me from the streets of Jada, where I sold firewood, to the heights I have attained, ...

Nigeria: EFCC Arraigns Atiku’s Son-in-law, Lawyer for $2. 14Million Fraud

15Aug

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Corruption, Crime, Finance, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: EFCC Arraigns Atiku’s Son-in-law, Lawyer for $2. 14Million Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office on Wednesday arraigned one Abdullahi Babalele before Justice Iniekenimi Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a two-count charge, bordering on money laundering to the tune of $140, 000. In a similar development, the EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, same day, arraigned one Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to Atiku, before Justice Oweibo on a three-count charge, bordering on money laundering to the tune of $2,000,000 (Two Million United State Dollars). Babalele, who is son-in-law to Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, allegedly persuaded one Bashir Mohammed to make a cash payment of $140,000 without going th...

Opinion: Who Is Afraid of Atiku Abubakar? by Femi Aribisala.

28May

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Opinion: Who Is Afraid of Atiku Abubakar? by Femi Aribisala.

There are indications today’s APC government is not averse to using the Shugaba playbook on Atiku. These are very interesting times in Nigeria. The APC government has reportedly won a major election, but it is finding it difficult, if not impossible, to celebrate and enjoy its victory. Before the champagne could be uncorked, Atiku Abubakar filed a case in court challenging the result, claiming it was fraudulent from start to finish. But this was a challenge unlike any other that Nigeria has seen before. Out of the blue, Atiku produced another set of results different from the one declared by INEC showing that he had actually won the election. Except that this other result also came from INEC. As a matter of fact, it was retrieved from the INEC server and it was authenticated by ...

Nigeria: Atiku not Constitutionally Qualified to Contest, He was Born in Cameroon

12Feb

By admin12 Comments

Cameroon, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Atiku not Constitutionally Qualified to Contest, He was Born in Cameroon

Only natural born citizens by birth are valid and eligible source of producing a president in Nigeria. In an interesting twist, a news brought to the fore by Nnamdi Kanu regarding Atiku's birth appears to have brought up a constitutional concern. Following this revelation, a bishop wrote an article on Facebook explaining the constitutional implication of this. "People of God.. When someone talks, try and listen, understand and assimilate before you vomit a reply.. . Atiku Abubakar is a Fulani man as he said. He is from Adamawa state. He is a Nigerian today. He is the presidential aspirant of the PDP.. No one is taking all these a way from him.. . A referendum was held in British Cameroons on 11 February 1961 (today Marks it 58years) to determine whether the territory should join n...

Nigeria: Reject APC, Buhari, PDP Urges North-West As They Storm Sokoto For Atiku

3Dec

By Akanimo Sampson1 Comment

News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Reject APC, Buhari, PDP Urges North-West As They Storm Sokoto For Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential campaign train is in Sokoto, an ancient city located in the extreme North-West Nigeria,near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River this Monday to market their candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as part of their North West Presidential zonal rally Those who know better say the name Sokoto, a modern/anglicised version of the local name, Sakkwato, is of Arabic origin, representing suk, 'market'. It is also known as Sakkwato, Birnin Shaihu da Bello or Sokoto, capital of Shaihu and Bello. Being the seat of the former Sokoto Caliphate, the city is predominantly Muslim and an important seat of Islamic learning in Nigeria. The Sultan who heads the caliphate is effectively the spiritual leader of Nigerian Muslims. Against this...